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April 13, 2001
Editorials
Big lie
Making believe that the teacher shortage is the union's fault is a big lie. And trying to punish them is just plain wrong.
Much-needed Medicaid waivers
George W. Bush has been on a tear since inauguration, hastily trashing policies years in the making on matters ranging from abortion to the environment. But there's at least one area in which the new president has correctly assessed the need for speed: Medicaid waivers.
Bad billboard bills
Not all of Florida's legislators are as eager as Rep. David D. Russell Jr., R-Brooksville, to betray their constituents to the billboard lobby, but too many are willing to sell out someone else's if they can protect their own. The time-tested tactic of divide and conquer is working for the billboard cartel and its agents in the Legislature.
Letters
Low-flow toilets work great, save water and money
Re: New toilets tempt tinkerers, April 9.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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